Container for coloring-agent capsules



Nov. 13, 1923. 1,474,248

A. ENGLISH CONTAINER FOR COLORING AGENT CAPSULES Filed March 29. 1922 Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

ARTHUR ENGLISH, OF KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS.

CONTAINER FOB COLORING-AGENT CAPSULES.

Application filed March 29, 1922. Serial No. 547,764.

T all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I. ARTHUR ENGLISH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kankakee, in the county of Kaukakee and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Container for Coloring-Agent Capsules; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a container for capsules or the like containing a coloring agent such as is sold or provided with packages of margarine or artificial butter and the like and for admixture of the coloring agent therewith.

The prime object is to provide a means which will positively avoid indentation of $9 the butter with the finger. as by the sales clerk in order to accommodate the capsules within the butter substitute carton or package at the time of sale and which is the present practice, and to provide a means which 95 will positively overcome the contact of the fingers of the sales clerk or other person with the artificial butter at any time before it reaches the consumer in order to thus materially aid in its sanitary handling or mar- 39 keting.

Another important object is to provide a container which is attachable to a box or carton which contains the artificial butter, which container has a depression to enter $5 the butter to assist in anchoring the same in place and in which depression the capsule is insertible through an opening in the wall of the box or carton preferab y closed by a bendable flap.

Still another important object is to provide the container of such construction that it may be made from a single piece of bend able metal or other material to enable its rapid and expeditious manufacture at minimum cost.

Additional objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating a 5 practical embodiment.

In said drawings Figure 1. is a pempective view showing a carton adapted to contain artificial butter having my improved container in place II thereon with the closure flap thereof in open position and with its closed position suggested in dotted lines;

Figure '2 is a longitudinal sectional view through a carton containing artificial butter and with my improved container in place; indented iuto the butter and retaining a capsulebearing a coloring agent, and

Figure 3 is a detail'pcrspective view of the container alone and with its flap open.

Like reference characters designate like or slinilar parts in the different views.

Referring specifically to the drawings, a box or carton, for instance of pasteboard as usual, is shown at A which contains for example margarine or artificial butter at B in block form as usual. The carton A has one of its walls as a movable end closure C.

As is usual, a pill or capsule D of am; suitable form for instance a gelatinoiis globnle and adapted to contain a liquid coloring agent for admixture with the margarine B by the consumer is sold or presented to the customer with the package. In this instance, a novel container at E is provided for the capsule D.

The said container E is adapted to be stamped in a single piece from a sheet of bendable metal or other material and it has the closure tab at 10, a depression or receptacle at 11 and a flange at 12 surrounding the said receptacle 11.

To accommodate the use of the container E, one wall of the carton or box A, preferably the closure wall or flap C is provided with a slit at 13 and with an insert opening 14 relatively close thereto.

When the article B is sold, the receptacle E may be in place with the closure flap 10 passed through the slit 13 to slide against the exterior of the wall 0 while the flange 12 rests against the inner surface of the wall C and the receptacle 11 is depressed into the artificial butter B. The depression of the receptacle 11 into the butter in the manner mentioned, will tend to prevent displacement of the container E, particularly in the plane'of the wall C. When the package is sold, the capsule D may be inserted through the opening 14 and into the receptacle 11 after which the tab 10 is bent over the open- 9 ing 14 in order to close the same. If desired, before the package is sold to the retailer, the capsule D ma be disposed within the receptacle 7 as will e understood.

As a result of the improvement, the artificial butter B will not have to be touched by the sales clerk or anyone prior to its reaching the consumer. Accordingly, the present prevalent practice of the sales clerk E pressing his finger directly lnto the artificial butter to provide a cavity into which he places the capsule D, is overcome. Hence,

the artificial butter ,or equivalent material may be handled in a thoroughly sanitary manner.

As merely one practical embodiment of the invention has been illustrated and described, it is to be understood that changes in the details ma be resorted to provided they fall Within tile spirit and scope of the invention. i I claim as my invention 1. In combination with a carton and its contents. a container positioned by the carton having a receptacle depressible into the contents of the carton, a closure flap on the container projecting through the carton and disposed in closing relation with the receptacle, and the carton having an opening to permit access to the receptacle and adapted to be closed by said flap.

2. A container for attachment to a carton consisting of a single blank for passage through the Wall of the carton, the blank being bendableintermediate its ends to form a flap on one side of the wall, the blank having a depressed receptacle on the other side of the wall extending away from and to be closed by the flap.

5 3. A container for attachment to a carton 1 adapted to be passed through the wall of l the carton, the container being bendable intermediate its ends to form a flap on one reveeee side of the wall and a portion substantially parallel with the flap on the other side of the wall, and a receptacle-accessible through said wall and extendin from said portion and away from said well 4. A container for attachment to a carton adapted to be passed through the wall of the carton, the container being bendable 'intermediate its ends to form a flap on one side of the wall and a portion substantially parallelwith the flap on theotherside of the wall, a receptacle accessible through said wall and extending fromsaid portion and away from said wall, a closure for the carton.

5. A carton havin a container'extending through the wall, t e container having a portion overlapping the exterior of the wall and a portion overlapping the interior of the wall and the latterportion having a receptacle extending away from said wall and the first mentioned portion.

- 6. A carton having a container extending through the wall, the container having a portion overlapping the exterior of the wall and a portion overlapping the interior of the wall and the latter portion having a receptacle extending away from said wall and the first mentioned portion, said wall having an opening therethrough to permit access to the receptacle, and the first mentioned portion constituting a closure for said opening.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witn ART ENGLISH.

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